I must have missed your first post.  I have heard these we had one that 
was on almost every night last winter, but we havn't heard it this 
winter.  WE hang out on 1.970.  I forget what the call was.  Someone 
found them on line once and as I recall, they are ten watt radios with 
an 8 foot whip.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:

> People on both the QRp and AM discussion lists tell me that
> I am hearing a drift net beacon, probably from somewhere out
> in the Gulf of Mexico.
>
> I thought the drift net beacons were all gone from that part
> of the spectrum, but obviously not. I heard those things
> often
> in the early and mid 1980s, but haven't heard one on 160 in
> many years.
>
> That is probably what it is. I will check the W8JI list of
> drift net beacons to see if I can learn anything about the
> location of what I am hearing.
>
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> Mike Duke, K5XU
> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
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